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Sears, Kmart Closings Will Shutter 3 Percent Of Company's Stores
As you know, numbers can often be looked at several ways.
There's the headline that "dozens of Kmart, Sears stores to close" and the topline news that "between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores" are going to be shut down as the retailer looks to trim costs and move ahead after it endured a pretty poor holiday shopping season.
That's a lot of stores, obviously.
Buried further down in the stories, though, is the note that Sears Holdings Corp., parent of Kmart and Sears, Roebuck, has "4,000 full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada."
Do the math and it seems that 120 is about 3 percent of 4,000. Judge for yourself whether that's a major part of its business.
According to Sears Holdings, its "comparable store sales" for the eight weeks ended Dec. 25 were down 5.2 percent overall — 4.4 percent at Kmart stores and 6 percent at Sears. It says that:
"Kmart's quarter-to-date comparable store sales decline reflects decreases in the consumer electronics and apparel categories and lower layaway sales. Sears Domestic's quarter-to-date sales decline was primarily driven by the consumer electronics and home appliance categories, with more than half of the decline in Sears Domestic occurring in consumer electronics. Sears apparel sales were flat and Lands' End in Sears stores was up mid-single digits."
Closing the stores, according to the company, will "generate $140 to $170 million of cash as the net inventory in these stores is sold and we expect to generate additional cash proceeds from the sale or sublease of the related real estate."
There's no word yet on which stores the company will close. It says it will post the news here at some point.
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3 Fun Themes for Fall Door Decorations
Farm-stand fresh
Do you love apple-picking time and cruising local farm stands for end-of-season produce? Use ideas from both for this display. Fresh-picked apples fill vintage harvest baskets (stuff bottoms with newspaper). Dried cornstalks, attached to porch posts with wire hidden under burlap, add sizable impact. Indian corn, various gourds, and an old rake and pitchfork round out the country theme. Unite this riotous mix with pots of red mums and red fall leaves (we used fakes!).Click to our next two slides for details of this display.
Farm-stand fresh wreath
Our door wreath is simply a head of kale surrounded by faux apples, seedpods and leaves on a foam base. Use glue, pins or floral wire to secure decorations to the base.
Farm-stand fresh accessories
Straw bales act as display ledges. Top with leaves, gourds, a weathered birdhouse, ears of corn or any other items that fit the theme.
Nature's artistry
Maybe you love long walks in fields and woods, watching leaves change and discovering small bits of nature. Bring those elements home with cut branches wired to climb one side of the door frame (we attached gathered fallen leaves) and big pots of grasses.Click to our next three slides for details of this display.
Nature's artistry pumpkins
Four pumpkins on a table spell out FALL using antique keys (secured with long straight pins).
Nature's artistry wreath
Embellish a square store-bought magnolia wreath with color-coordinated real and faux materials, including twigs, seedpods, nuts, berries, wheat and leaves.
Nature's artistry gourd groupings
To keep a sophisticated, muted palette, arrange groupings of gourds and pumpkins in shades of peach, gold, pale green and beige. Scatter in other organic objects, such as antlers and branches.
Spooky style
If your fall is all about anticipating Halloween fun, then create a door that sets the proper mood. The centerpiece is an eye-catching, life-size removable tree decal. (Similar decals available from Dali Decals). Click to our next three slides for details of this display.
Spooky style pumpkins
Use old chairs, barrels, metal laundry tubs, pails and more to corral traditional orange pumpkins, easily decorated freehand with black stripes or polka dots. (We drilled holes in some pumpkins to duplicate the painted dots.) Paint your favorite Halloween sayings between the stripes.
Spooky style ladder
The rungs of a vintage ladder propped next to the door hold crafts store letters spelling BOO. Repeat the stripe and dot motif of your pumpkins by draping matching inexpensive fabrics on the ladder and over barrels and tubs for a high-spirited, coordinated look.
Spooky style accessories
A fake raven, gourds and wooden container add fall color and flair to a ladder-back chair.


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Love on the Road
At the bottom of every climber's heart lies a gnarled twist, like a knot on the root of a magnolia tree, where life without climbing ended, and another strange and vertically crazed path began.
At the bottom of every climber's heart lies a gnarled twist, like a knot on the root of a magnolia tree, where life
without climbing ended, and another strange and vertically crazed path began. If you travel back through the arteries of this circuitous roadway, down
through the memories of runout slabs, scary descents or momentous sends, you will eventually reach that knotted junction, where it becomes normal to
have bulbous lumps on all ten toes, or bowstringed tendons arcing from a bent finger like the back of a striking cobra. And at this junction, there
usually lies the definitive moment when the old world of moving horizontally across this planet was forever jolted and turned upright.
I remember when my heart was twisted like the core of a dynamic rope. It was my first trip to the desert—Moab to be exact—and no I was not
going for any rock climbing. In fact, the only thing on my mind was warming my freezing, 21-year-old Mississippi bones in a climate warmer than my
current, early spring whereabouts of Ouray, Colorado. I was in love with a mountain girl named Cristal, and she and her friend Megan, and me and my
lifelong homeboy Justin, were all gonna go see those gorgeous, precarious arches for a weekend.
But Justin had already been bitten by the climbing bug, and was secretly scheming.
"What the hell is that?" I'd asked while he tried to sneakily stuff a Misty Mountain crash pad into the Subaru's hatchback.
"Uh, dude, you know, while you and the girls go hike around, I thought I'd do a little bouldering."
"Ugh. Earth-nerd!" That was the term I'd given to my childhood friend-cum-rock-climber. But really I was just jealous. And now, because of his condescending
"while you and the girls go hiking" attitude, I really took issue.
"Well, guess I'll do a little boulder climbing with you then," I said as I crammed my over-stuffed Cabela's duffle on top of his spot pad.
"It's just called bouldering, man. And you don't even have climbing shoes."
"I'll wear yours," I said threateningly, furrowing my brow and leaning in close.
These were days when, young and dumb, the gauntlet could be thrown down for almost any slight and Justin almost took the bait. We met eyes—just like
we had as angsty teenagers during late nights in the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta, three sheets to the wind and arguing just for the drunken
sake of arguing. He knew we were either going to drop our bags and go fisticuffs, or he was going to take me climbing. There was a moment when it could
have gone either way, but finally he relented, "OK, asshole," and we packed the rest of our stuff into the girls' Subaru and rolled toward the desert.
I'll never forget the stark juxtaposition as we eased into Utah off highway 90, leaving what I'd felt was the inescapable grip of the snowy San Juan Mountains
to enter a brown-hued, sun-drenched desert. I felt my southern body thaw and loosen, and a wild energy that only the desert engenders took hold. I
urged the girls to pull over at the liquor store as we entered Moab. We needed beer before we set up camp. And despite the fact that I couldn't even
find Budweiser in that weird store, I still emerged triumphant with a case of some 3.2 beer/water and forever set a precedent with the younger Colorado-born
girls that camping with boys from Mississippi means drinking. A lot.
We slept that night near the banks of the muddy, languid Colorado river, bedded down in the sage brush and juniper that tangles itself into nests on the
river's north side. Our fire crackled until morning, and we woke up stiff with a chill that seemed to over-match the previous day's thawing heat.
That first day in the desert was not particularly special for me. Justin, being the ornery, brother-like friend that he was (and still is), decided to
quest out on his own, while the girls and I had us a "little hike."
"I'm just gonna hitchhike up the road to a sick bouldering area called Big Bend," he jabbed as we ate breakfast.
"Wow, sounds real freakin' fun, Earth-nerd!" I glanced at the girls to make sure they were laughing with me, not at me.
But Justin didn't care. His heart had been twisted and forked long before that trip, and he was going climbing, not hiking.
The girls and I spent the heat of the day walking through the desert labyrinth of Arches National Park, though we didn't dare venture down the trail to
see the Delicate Arch, for that was reserved for the following day when Justin would be with us.
Arriving back at camp, we found Justin lounging on his thin and shaggy spot pad, his hands and clothes covered in a white powder as if he had been kneading
dough in Eddie McStiff's famous Moab pizza kitchen. He flaunted his fatigue from the "sick bouldering," wearing it like a burden, even when just talking.
I was envious. I sure as hell didn't feel that "worked," as he put it, from my hiking. So I built a huge bonfire, drank about eight beers and vehemently
raged and caroused until maybe 11:15 p.m., when all campers, no matter how wild, inevitably hit an imaginary, can't-possibly-continue-on wall in some
eerie, universal, camping phenomenon.
The next day dawned like a maul striking a sheet of flat tin. But I rose up with a stubborn disagreement to the fact that I felt like hell, because I was
going climbing. I mean, sure we were also going to see the most beautiful horseshoed rock in the entire world (the Delicate Arch), but truthfully,
I just wanted to sample that rock scrambling Justin kept raving about.
We downed watery oats and then set off, our minds anxious for the visual stimulation of seeing that post-carded monolith up close.
As we drove into the park, Justin pointed
out huge formations of red-orange stone, mentioning that people had climbed them. I rubbernecked for a view of the summits and squirmed in my seat.
I can't imagine what the other tourists thought as we departed the crowded Delicate Arch parking lot with Justin donning a crash pad instead of a Camelback.
But we were going bouldering. Plain and simple. And honestly, I don't think any of us had any idea that we weren't even at a bouldering area. So we
sauntered up the easy trail, and had ourselves a look at that delicately strung arch and I remember asking Justin if anyone had climbed it and he laughed.
"There's no bolts and no place to put in trad gear on that thing," he explained impatiently. Ironically, Dean Potter would free solo that same sandstone
arch a year later in plain daylight with cameras rolling, setting off a maelstrom of controversy.
Inexplicably, however, my heart was growing anxious as I turned my back on the arch. I was ready to feel the stone that seemed to surround me on all sides
in that desert, but like a boy out hunting with his daddy, I waited patiently for Justin to lead the way.
The girls followed behind for a little ways and then poof … just like that they were clad in bikinis and sprawled out to tan. Oblivious,
I continued following Justin. Clearly, I was already bewitched by climbing. How else can I explain leaving cute girls in bikinis for the allure of
Soon enough Justin found our chosen "practice boulder." The smooth face of the rock was split down the middle with a 10-foot, curving crack. I watched
as Justin meticulously crammed his feet in little pink shoes while sitting on his folded out pad. He then started up the crack, moving deliberately
slow, I noticed.
"Why are you moving so slow?" I asked.
"Sshhh! You don't talk when people are climbing." He continued up the crack, his feet pasted on either side, his hands thrust into the fissure. His butt
pointed straight into the air due to the extreme slabbyness of the face and I giggled. He was practically crawling!
He got to the top of the "problem," as he kept referring to it, and then walked off the backside.
"You sure you want to give this a try?" he asked, returning to the pad.
"Uh, yeah. Give me the shoes, dude."
I stuffed my sweaty feet into those tiny pink shoes and then started up. I climbed fast. Hell, I hardly had to use my hands!
"Too fast!" Justin pointed out. "Take it slow. Stay controlled!"
"I can almost stand up," I exclaimed giddily, excited about how easy this climbing thing actually was. And as I moved through the void of that crack, my
heart knotted with kinesthetic glee.
"I just want to keep going!" I said reaching the top.
"Yeah, you'll probably be a sport climber then," Justin said with an air of disapproval.
And so we climbed that boulder again and again, and Justin even did a "problem" on the backside where he jumped from a smaller rock onto the boulder and
caught two "crimpers" before climbing to the boulder's lip.
Eventually, we folded up the Misty pad and found the sunbathing girls so we could hit the road and head back to Colorado. As we drove toward the snowcapped
San Juans, my heart grew as twisted as those mountain roads, and my thoughts seemed to hover, traveling upward now instead of sticking to the flats
as before. And as my daydream switched from one handhold to the next, we careened down highway 90 and passed into Colorado just as Billy Idol's anthem
"Dancing With Myself" thundered through the radio. We chanted the chorus; our heads bobbing while the Colorado landscape unfolded off the side of highway
Well there's nothing to lose
I've got nothing to prove
I'll be dancing with myself!
We rounded a hairpin corner, the windows down, the music loud and everyone singing along. But as Megan geared down for a slight decent, we noticed a Jeep
parked on the shoulder in the distance. Billy Idol continued to thump but we no longer sang aloud as we squinted into the distance at something strange
happening beside the vehicle.
"What is that?" A voice drifted back from the front seat.
"Maybe they need help, slow down," someone yelled, fighting to be heard above the crooning, soft-punk vocals.
We slowed the car as we approached, the object growing larger, slowly morphing into what had to be a person, no two people …
"Oh god!" screamed Cristal
from the passenger seat.
"Dancing with myself!" sang Billy.
"Ahhhhh!!!!" cried Megan.
"They're doing it!" yelled Justin triumphantly.
The heaving object had abruptly come into a startling focus, and there, lying next to the green Jeep, above a beautiful, Colorado mountain vista on the
side of highway 90, were two lovers wildly getting it on.
We approached at an embarrassingly slow roll, but the man on top never stopped moving. Bare-assed, he smiled in our direction as he politely covered his
lover's head.
Dancing with myself … I'll be dancing with myself.
But just as Megan hit the gas to speed past, I noticed it.
"Holy shit! Did you see it, Justin?" I asked.
"Yeah, I saw it, man," he replied.
And I knew he had indeed. For what we, as new, greenhorn "climbers" had both noticed was that the couple were, in fact, strutting their stuff right on
top of a nice, thick, folded out … crash pad.
Maybe there was something to this bouldering thing after all.
This article was originally published in 2013.


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In a move that will excite McRib lovers the world over, the official Burger King Twitter account announced this morning that the company had been sold to McDonald's as a result of persistent drug-use by Burger King employees.
Fortunately for lovers of its flame-broiled Whoppers, no such sale has occurred. The blue-ticked account has been hacked by parties unknown. The hackers are giving regular shouts out to "DFNCTSC," the Defonic Team Screen Name Club, a group of eight to 12 hackers that briefly found fame in 2005 after hacking Paris Hilton's Sidekick and posting her contacts online.
When asked if DFNCTSC was responsible for the hack, however, the account replied "nope #lulzsec foo[l]," resurrecting the name of the Anonymous-affiliated group that made a big splash in 2011. It later emerged that LulzSec's leader, Hector "Sabu" Monsegur, was working for the FBI in secret.
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GROTON — In a major change to plans concerning Boynton Meadows, developer Robert France met with the Planning Board to discuss adding a 100-seat restaurant to the list of tenants signing up to occupy an existing, newly renovated building fronting Main Street.
According to a special permit awarded France by the Planning Board, Boynton Meadows is to include three affordable-housing units among 18 planned, a feature that first drew the attention of selectmen and the interest of the Affordable Housing Trust which arranged to loan France $412,000.
Designs for the individual homes will follow the classic lines of many older homes in town, designed to make the various duplexes and triplexes look less like town houses and more like single-family dwellings.
France said the first affordable unit will be ready in phase one of the project along with two other market-rate units and the commercial space, all of which are to be located in the renovated building.
Already, tenants have been lining up to move in to the commercial space on the ground floor of the renovated building, including Bliss Bakery, Buddha Nest Yoga, and a dentist's office.
But according to France, alterations in construction of the building has made it possible to expand the square footage of the remaining commercial space so that a space that had been reserved for 26 seats can now accommodate 100.
France said new basement space was created beneath the building as well as under a nearby courtyard.
France told board members that according to his calculations that even with the increased seating there will be enough sewer capacity for the project due to a reduction in the number of bedrooms in some of the housing units.
In addition, the alterations would have no impact on nearby wetlands or drainage due to no increase in impervious surfaces around the building.
The only real issue, said France, was parking and for that, 29 extra spaces would be needed to accommodate the expansion of the restaurant space.
Although France did not go into detail on how the extra spaces would be created, board members did not seem to think it would be a problem.
"The board is willing to entertain creative ways to (address parking)," said member Russell Burke.
France is expected to return before the board with a formal application for a special permit modification.
Also, the board voted to recommend approval of changes in the town's water-resource-protection district map as presented by Water Department Superintendent Thomas Orcutt.
The proposed change would be submitted as a warrant article at spring Town Meeting updating a map prepared by Applied Geographics, Inc. which will now include recently acquired or identified areas as sources of drinking water to be protected.
According to Orcutt, the new areas include the Shattuck Well, a site at Unkety Brook, and two other well sites being developed. The areas are around and northeast of Baddacook Pond, which, with other parcels, will now form a protected watershed corridor running north to south through the east part of town.
Orcutt said the most immediate change in local zoning if the amendment were approved at Town Meeting it would be to have more strict guidelines for development in the area especially those involving commercial or industrial activity.


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The Church is currently observing the "Year of
Faith." As an official part of that observance, the
Church designated a Day of Life which was observed
June 15 and Sunday, June 16, including a Mass
celebrated by Pope Francis.
This event was a sign, of course, of the integral
connection between being a believer and being
pro-life. Our stance in favor of life does not flow
primarily from an ideology or a political platform,
but rather from the same act of faith by which we
embrace Jesus Christ, the Resurrection and the Life.
We therefore urged parishes, families, and individual
believers to join with this observance by saying the
prayer and using the resources below. Let us all rededicate ourselves to the
Gospel of Life!
A prayer for the Day of Life
Study guide for Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of
Pro-Life Prayer Book: In the Palm of His Hand -
Newly Revised
The Official Pilgrimage
Last year, at the same time that these events were
first announced, Priests for Life announced that we
had arranged a pilgrimage to help people take part
in them. The events included educational seminars on
Saturday, June 15, Eucharistic Adoration and
Confessions, a Candlelight Procession in Rome on
Saturday night, and a Mass in Saint Peter's Square
on Sunday morning, June 16 at 10:30am celebrated by
Pope Francis.
Below you will see photos and information from this
pilgrimage. Enjoy!
Homily by Pope Francis for the Day of Life
Mons Vincenzo Paglia Homily during the Holy Mass
with Priests for Life Rome, June 14, 2013 (PDF)
Talk given to pilgrimage group by Virginia Coda
Nunziante, President of Rome March for Life Rome,
June 12 2013 (PDF)
See photos from the Pilgrimage
See Videos of the Pilgrimage
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Jim Hillibish: Guess who pays as nation struggles back to solvency
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May is happy month in Washington. The Treasury is basking in new tax dollars. The figures are in, and this year, Treasury collected a $114 billion surplus, the largest since 2008.
Higher taxes, lower federal spending and a slightly improving economy powered the 2013 results. Personal tax collections climbed 7 percent and business taxes 15 percent. Federal spending, despite all the sequestration bluster, declined only 2 percent. The public is bearing the brunt on the long road to federal solvency.
Out here in the hinterlands, things still are not so idyllic. People are talking about having less money to spend on much higher costs for food and energy. Our unemployment rate seems stuck.
Many payrolls remain stagnant. The percentage of people able to work who are not working is way too high.
The Department of Health and Human Services has released the first blush on the cost of Obamacare. Enrollees age 50 are averaging $5,220 a year in health insurance costs nationally. This doesn't include deductibles, which cost up to $5,000 for the lower-premium plans. Anthem Blue Cross estimates out-of-pocket deductibles for out-of-network providers at up to $15,000 for individuals and $30,000 for families. That's money coming out of family budgets. The Obamacare killer is the deductibles, something not mentioned by our president.
HHS warns of increases coming. Soon we will be writing about people who refused to buy health insurance. Obamacare will fine them $60 per person this year, rising to $695 by 2016. The U.S. Joint Committee on Taxation estimates 6 million non-insured will be fined this year. The Congressional Budget Office says that total will climb by 2 million people a year in future years, but nobody knows for sure.
Despite well-publicized cuts, our federal government still is spending money it doesn't have. Its deficit for the first seven months of this fiscal year is $301 billion, but that's $187 billion lower than for the same period last year.
Obviously, we cannot depend on cuts in federal spending and higher taxes to eliminate the deficit. The monster eating 66 percent of the budget is entitlements. A solvent budget now seems impossible without strong cuts here, but they amount to political suicide.
Social Security is costing 5 percent more than last year, and Medicaid is up 9 percent, unsustainable expenses according to the Congressional Budget Office. Something must give, and we all know what that means: Pay more, get less or both.
It's simple math: We cannot afford last year's 14 percent total rise, especially since it will climb just as fast or faster in years to come as our population ages.
We should be more worried about next year. The CBO projects the deficit will balloon to $492 billion, or 2.7 percent of the nation's entire economic output. The only way to address that is with more tax dollars and more spending cuts and a realistic control of entitlements.
It's a bitter pill for all of us, but we now know that lower government spending alone cannot erase it. The budget is being consumed by mandatory payments.
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It's great to see issues of The Horsham Times going online at Trove. I was very happy when I immediately found articles about family members. While I did have some family in Horsham, I have found a lot of articles about the Cavendish area which I am hoping will help with the Hadden and Mortimer families.
When fully released, issues available will cover the period 1882-1954. This will be a great resource for researching the Western District. There is more to look forward to. New titles for the 2011-2012 financial year will include:
Ararat Advertiser (1914-1918) NOW AVAILABLE
Casterton News and the Merino and Sandford Record (1914-1918) NOW AVAILABLE
Colac Herald (1914-1918) NOW AVAILABLE
Mildura Cultivator (1888-1920) NOW AVAILABLE
Warrnambool Standard (1914-1918) NOW AVAILABLE
If you haven't visited Trove lately, these are the titles from Western Victoria already available:
Camperdown Chronicle (1877-1954)
Kerang Times & Swan Hill Gazette (1877-1889)
Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser (1842-1876)
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Judges thwart sex stings: No registry for men nabbed in Plymouth county
The youth swim coach caught trying to lure what he thought was a teenager online won't have to register as a sex offender — one of at least three men nabbed by investigators in Plymouth County stings who have been able to skirt the registry.
In all three cases, a judge found there was enough evidence to convict the men, but opted to continue the cases without findings — and then dismiss the charges in the next few years if they don't get into trouble again.
And because the men haven't been convicted of a crime, they don't register as sex offenders with the state.
"That is disappointing," Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonald, whose department hosts the county's online investigative unit that nabbed the suspects. "We need to educate the judiciary."
The cases of Giovanni Lepore, 26, of Revere, a YMCA swim coach; Matthew J. Coelho, 23, of Hudson; and Dennis Puskas of Boston — all caught by the county's online investigative unit since 2005 — were continued without a finding and will be dropped as long as the suspects don't get arrested again in upcoming years.
But even those who did plead guilty and are forced to register as sex offenders could ask a judge to exempt them from registering if they didn't get a prison or jail sentence. Under law, those convicted of enticement for sexual intercourse — as well as several other sex-related crimes — could petition the court and ask not to be required to register.
The other types of convictions are indecent assault and battery on a person age 14 or over, incestuous marriage or intercourse, possession of child pornography, open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, and enticing away a person for prostitution.
Charles McDonald, spokesman for the state's Sex Offender Registry, said it is up to judges to decide whether to grant a request not to register.
Charles McDonald said those who received a sentence of incarceration — even if it is suspended — are not eligible.
The Plymouth County Sheriff's Department High-tech Evidence Analysis Team, or HEAT, has worked extensively with Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz, state police and other agencies to target online predators.
Last year, law enforcement stings netted dozens of suspects, including Sean Dodgson, who was a Plymouth selectman at the time. Dodgson resigned under pressure and is awaiting trial in superior court.
Only a handful of those caught served jail time. Most received probation or suspended sentences.
The Plymouth County sheriff said even though many of the suspects got suspended sentences or probation he considers the effort successful.
"I'm disappointed the sentences were not more severe, but this is a start," he said. "We're sending the message that we are out there."
The sheriff said attitudes about online crime — and sexual enticement online — need to change. "We are raising public awareness," he said.
In the case of Lepore, the Revere man was a YMCA swim coach when he was arrested last year at his home after sending images of himself performing a sexual act via a Web cam to what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. He then made arrangements to meet with the "girl" in Plymouth County, but authorities decided to arrest him at his home before the meeting after learning he was a youth swim coach.
In Lepore's case, prosecutors sought tough penalties: a 2 1/2-year jail sentence with one year to serve, registration as a sex offender, counseling, no Internet use outside of work and school, no direct contact with children, 200 hours of community service and random sweeps of his computer for explicit materials.
District Court Judge Gregor Baler accepted some of those recommendations — including barring Lepore from using a Web cam — but also gave Lepore a big break.
However, if the plea triggered a deportation hearing, the judge ruled that Lepore would be allowed to withdraw his plea and go to trial.
In the case of Matthew Coelho, 22, of Hudson, prosecutors requested a 2 1/2-year jail sentence with one year to serve, registration as a sex offender, no Internet use, random home visits, random searches of the computer and no possession of pornography or obscene materials.
Again, the judge accepted some recommendations, but not the most serious, by prosecutors. The judge continued the case without a finding until 2010, ordered counseling, the forfeiture of the man's computer, 100 hours of community service, and ordered him to stay away from children under age 18. Coelho was also forbidden to have a home computer and could not possess any obscene or pornographic material.
It was a similar scenario with Puskas, whose probation continues until 2012. The judge in that case ordered Puskas to provide a DNA sample, undergo mental health examinations and sex offender evaluations, have no contact with those under age 17, wear a GPS monitor and provide probation officials with all computer passwords. Internet use was limited to school and work, and probation officials are allowed to conduct random sweeps of computers for sexually explicit material.
Maureen Boyle of The Enterprise (Brockton, Mass.) can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.